Parent Service is where an all-ages work throws in a bit of mild sexiness to provide extra entertainment for parents and older siblings. Writers know that moms/dads adore watching shows with hot men/women in them, so they throw it in, in case they have to watch it. It's also what separates family shows/movies from children's shows/movies: While in both cases kids are the primary target, the former is specifically designed to retain elements that will keep all members of the family entertained.

Examples:

The Pokémon anime does play around with the concept with the Team Rocket trio, The Sensational Cerulean Sisters and Ash's mother, who have more than once come off like this. There are also a pretty good amount of one-shots that can apply as well, though the Orange Islands arc had a couple of very blatant examples with Professor Ivy and Lorelei/Prima. (But the show itself is generally tame compared to how certain Pokémon manga can be, especially Toshiro Ono's handiwork.)

All Time Bokan series feature this (because, well, Time Bokan's villain trio is essentially always the same, just with different hairdoes and names):

Disturbingly parodied in F-Minus, where a family is walking out of a showing of a kiddie movie, and the father comments that "That movie had something for everybody, talking animals for the kids, and tasteful nudity for the adults."

A Disney Princess is sometimes this (unless she's clearly underage and, depending on how one defines "underage", sometimes even then).

Ariel of The Little Mermaid is the first princess whose design evokes sexuality, as she's much curvier and scantily clad (in her mermaid form anyway). Word of God is that she was originally going to have Godiva Hair, increasing this further.

Pocahontas' clothing seems to be this. It's certainly nothing an eastern woodlands tribal woman would wearnote In reality Pocahontas probably would have been topless; but she also would have been only twelve years old. And there's her fiancé at the beginning, who seems to have spent a bit of time at the gym, and her friend's Bare Your Midriff outfit.

Aladdin has a scene where Jasmine acts quite seductive and sexy towards Jafar in order to distract him from Aladdin. Also, she's the first Princess who wears a Bare Your Midriff outfit.

Elsa from Frozen is put in a stunning dress and given a Sexy Walk in her song.

In the live-action Scooby-Doo films (and perhaps Scooby-Doo as a whole), the outfits worn by Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar) are pretty clearly Parent Service. The vinyl Spy Catsuit Velma wears briefly in the second film is even more so, and the cameo of Pam Anderson in a slightly sheer white top is nothing but. Roger Ebert, an admitted "cleavage fetishist", pointed this out in his review as a way of coping with the movie:

As for myself, scrutinizing the screen helplessly for an angle of approach, one thing above all caught my attention: the director, Raja Gosnell, has a thing about big breasts. I say this not only because of the revealing low-cut costumes of such principals as Sarah Michelle Gellar, but also because of the number of busty extras and background players... Scooby-Doo'' could have been a comedy about how a Russ Meyer clone copes with being assigned a live-action adaptation of a kiddie cartoon show.

The first movie was originally going to be more adult, with things like overt references to marijuana and the suggestion that Velma was a lesbian (with the hots for Daphne). They eventually decided not to go in that direction (although there's still some pretty blatant weed gags), but some of the above is probably a leftover effect.

In Labyrinth, sex symbol David Bowie wears a pair of extremely tight leather pants that leave nothing to the imagination.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies was a light comedy movie about a family and, with moments like Doris Day as the mother leading a bunch of children in the title song, presumably intended for family audiences. One of its subplots, though, concerns the father's opinion of an actress' bottom. You can't get much more literal Parent Service than that.

For those who view the Transformers movies as merely properties based on toys and an '80s cartoon that they are being dragged to by their kids, the casting of Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are this.

Fathers stuck watching The Metro Chase with their kids probably won't complain too much when they see Lindsay Felton dressed like this◊.

The live-action Jungle Book; the kids get the cute animals. The adults get Jason Scott Lee in a loincloth.

The live-action Thunderbirds movie uses Lady Penelope in this way. Her character introduction is walking into Alan's classroom done up to the nines and saying "Hello boys". Plus there's a lenghty scene with her in the bath later on in the film.

Parodied on the episode of The Simpsons where the Simpsons go to Brazil and Bart watches a Brazilian kids' show called Teleboobies, featuring sexy women in tank tops and short-shorts rubbing against large letters, a showgirl/stripper demonstrating "clockwise" and "counterclockwise" using tassled pasties on her chest, and an unseen demonstration of "on top" and "underneath" (all we get to see is the family's wide-eyed reaction). Seeing her in a parade, Bart yells, "Hey, it's the stripper from the kid's show!"

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo has quite a few scenes of attractive women in bikinis, complete with music and camera focus making it clear that the sexiness of the ladies is being emphasized. Sunny (the youngest son) is oblivious, but the older males in the story certainly take notice.

Emmy Jo Peden co-hosted 1970s kids' show New Zoo Revue, which was aimed at preschoolers. That didn't stop her from wearing miniskirts and go-go boots.

Lots of Parent Service on the UK young children's block CBeebies, most of it simply very good-looking presenters - although Sarah-Jane from Tikkabilla is a former contortionist, as many dads like to point out.

The Top of the Pops dance troupes such as Pan's People and Legs & Co. that the show used when they couldn't get live footage in the era before music videos were widespread. Over in America meanwhile, there were the Solid Gold dancers.

Lampshaded in the third season of the HBO series OZ, when the inmates would regularly crowd around the TV to watch a children's program with a rather well-endowed hostess (with more than a few commenting on how lucky the puppets were!).

In Australia, there was a show called What's Up Doc, which basically showed a few Looney Tunes cartoons. It was hosted by Sophie Lee, who introduced the cartoons and tended to wear whatever she wanted due to the dress codes for television (It's not hard to see where that went). Catch was, however, that she wasn't wearing anything that was prohibited by any of the dress codes that existed or anything that was explicitly sexy. She was just extremely hot looking which caught a lot of parent's ire. She wasn't the only attractive woman to host that show. Current Getaway host Catriona Rowntree (who even went on to become the show's writer/producer) and former model Kate Fischer were also previous hosts of the show. The background set was loosely based on the idea that it's a Looney Tunes set, complete with a Daffy Duck shaped hole in the wall, but who cares?

Some French-Canadian examples:

Alia and Zalaé in Toc Toc Toc. As with LazyTown's Stephanie above, the characters are preschool-aged children, but the parents only see the adult actresses playing them.

Passe-Carreau in Passe-Partout. The attractiveness of the actress at the time is still a running gag for the show's generation.

It was lampshaded very heavily in Les Bougons, where the prostitute daughter of the family becomes a children's entertainer because of her sex appeal. Let's just say she's playing around with VERY phallic toys in her "videoclips". The kid's show was in fact a ploy by the crooked producer to trick her into transitioning into hardcore interracial porn. It failed.

Caleb gets a very brief, blink-and-you'll-miss-it Shirtless Scene in the opening titles of Mission:2110.

The A-Team: Face could be considered this. Well, any of the four A-Team members could be Parent Service for specific tastes, but Face was the most blatant: in Season 3, the showrunners seemed determined to show off his nice, lean arms and legs as much as possible and even gave him his first Shirtless Scene in the Season Premiere. The team Chick, Tawnia was definitely for the dads.

The Dad from Young Dracula could count as being for the Mums... though a lot of his fanbase seems to be made up of teenage girls with Electra complexes.

Maddie: Ok, it's time to strip and make the bed! London: Well ok. [nervously begins to remove her top] If that's what poor people do...

Debby Ryan didn't fit this trope so much on Suite Life on Deck. Then she got her own show where she, um, developed. Disney Channel isn't above putting her in scenes like this, much like the London and Maddie example above. A relatively rare example of the (adult) main star on a Kid Com fitting into trope, as this genre of show tends to have teens or even tweens play the main roles and therefore falling into Squick territory of they pull this off otherwise (though this hasn't stopped networks depending on who you ask)

Also from Jessie, Christina Moore who plays the mom and Jessie's boss. Arguably Chip Epsten, the husband, particularly notable as he's now more frequently shirtless on Nashville.

Doctor Who is well known for using the Doctor's companions for these purposes, where it's called "something for the Dads", although the show wasn't shy of having handsome young men around the place for the mums either. Some of the better known are:

Jamie McCrimmon. At one point his actor, Frazer Hines, was voted Sexiest Legs on Television. "The Enemy of the World" has him dress in a pleather uniform and pretend to be the servant of a Criminal Doppelgänger of the Doctor. "The Mind Robber" goes out of its way to have Jamie climb things, allowing for lingering close-ups of the kilt-clad legs of both of the actors who play him. Frazer Hines recalled in an interview: "I said, 'Patrick, you're paid a fortune as the Doctor to do all that speaking. I'm paid to get the girls from going out to the disco or a nightclub. And Padders [Wendy Padbury, who played Zoe as described in the previous paragraph] is paid to get the dads in from the garden.'"

The Brigadier is handsome; Benton and Yates moreso and added specifically for this. Benton's lopsided good looks made him enough of an Ensemble Darkhorse that his Estrogen Brigade successfully petitioned the BBC into giving him a bigger role!

Jo Grant. One example is her in yellow go-go boots◊ in "The Time Monster". (And that's not even taking into account that her actress, Katy Manning, even posed for an infamous nude shoot with a Dalek after leaving the show.) She and a number of companions of this era are notorious for the number of Panty Shot moments that occur. And then there's Ingrid Pitt's character in the same serial, a sexy Atlanean queen with very displayed and precarious cleavage, who spends most of her screen time trading unsubtle double entendres with Roger Delgado's Master.

Eldrad in "The Hand of Fear" - a sexy naked blue woman apparently made out of crystal, draping herself over Tom Baker. It's incredible to watch.

"The Deadly Assasin" is the one Classic story with no companion for this job and the rest of the cast are either old men or a hissing walking corpse, so an excuse is found to dress the Doctor in an unfastened see-through pirate shirt and tight skinny leggings, and get him wet, complete with him tossing back his wet hair and striking a pose. Even official programme guides comment about how dashing and sexy Tom Baker looks in this one. If you prefer a more conventionally handsome look for your men, the serial also delivers Bernard Horsfall in silver lipstick and eyeshadow.

Leela◊, a Nubile Savage who often wore skimpy suede costumes. The media at the time, which was at the time heavily criticising the show, even complained that Leela was like "one of those awful pneumatic girls on Top of the Pops" (Legs and Co).

"Studio 100" "Hallo K3" has this for both the moms and dads. For the dads, there are 3 women who wear some revealing clothing sometimes, and for the moms; there is Bas. The hot neighbour of the three girls, who gets many shirtless scenes!

Not that the Pink and Yellow Rangers would be outdone. Kat and Tanya, anyone? And definitely Kimberly, what with the tight gymnastics outfits, the otherwise constant upskirts and the episode where Zedd decides to make her his queen...which she expertly counters by emulating Rita Repulsa in both dress and mannerisms.

For the ladies, the likes of Tommy and Jason would always be wearing vests to show off their bulging biceps. And of course Leo from Lost Galaxy gets a pretty gratuitous scene where he rips off his shirt right before morphing. That one even made it into the opening sequence.

And Power Rangers Wild Force has Cole, that season's Red Ranger, who usually walked around with a ripped vest that showed off his muscular arms. Not to mention the scene of him and the other rangers facing against the Big Bad when they lost their morphing powers, in the rain and Cole is shirtless for majority of the scene. Thank you, producers.

In the last decade or so, practically every Tokusatsu show has started casting Bishōnen models/singers/actors in the male roles, and attractive gravure (bikini models) and singers (and in a couple of cases like Go-onger, former Adult Video actresses!) in the female roles.

One noteworthy recent example of this is episode 27 of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: before going into battle, Daigo/KyoryuRed pulls off a spectacular Battle Strip similar to Leo's aforementioned one, complete with gratuitous close-ups of his bare chest. Unlike Leo, though, not only does Daigo fight unmorphed, but he also spends the rest of his unmorphed screentime shirtless.

While this practice has increased in the last decade, it's not new. When Sentai was a new series, the standard Japanese house-hold had one television and at least five occupants, so shows had to be designed to have something for everyone in the room. Otherwise, kids wouldn't see the show long enough to get excited about buying the toys. So, there was action and slap-shtick for the kids, light romance for the teens, cute girls for dad, cute guys for mom and an overall light drama for the token family elder. It's hardly like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai weren't full of attractive guys and women in the Showa era!

How I Met Your Mother parodies this. Robin, whose alterego Robin Sparkles used to be a teen pop star in Canada, was also the star of a Canadian kids show called "Space Teens". Although the show is supposed to be about two Canadian teenagers solving outer space mysteries through math, when the gang watches it, they find it to be pretty much this trope. It starts with Robin Sparkles sliding down a pole in a short skirt and continues on to feature the teens tugging on an... interestingly shaped control, singing about their (pet) beavers, and solving math problems about how many inches of wood their beavers can eat. Robin, of course, refuses to see the show as anything but innocent, while the rest of the gang laughs it up.

There's a reason why the actors in Horrible Histories (a sketch show aimed [mostly] at kids on the BBC) are shirtless every now and then, and it's not just historical accuracy.

Best demonstrated in the song "The Highwayman" about Dick Turpin, where they dressed up the most attractive member of the cast in fancy clothes and eyeliner and had him smoulder through the song, which is a pastiche of 'Stand and Deliver' by Adam and the Ants. 99% of the comments on the YouTube video are women commenting on the sexiness of the video.

The song sung by the four King Georges of the Georgian era is a Boy Band pastiche in which they strike smouldery expressions and sing in numerical order - "I was the sad one," (George I), "I was the bad one" (George II, played by the most attractive man in the cast, Matt Baynton), "I was the mad one" (George III) and "I was the fat one" (George IV). When this was performed live in the Horrible Histories Proms, Matt sung "I was the bad one," and there was a really loud and noticeable collective Squee! from the crowd's adult women.

The RAF pilots song is another Boy Band pastiche where Matt Baynton smoulders a lot.

Sesame Street hasn't blatantly done this (except maybe with guest stars), but over the years there have been a number of (human) female characters who just happened to be fairly easy on the eyes (Maria, Linda, Gina, Leela).

Also, Sesame Street features a lot of EDUCATIONAL parent-service, in the form of bits teaching things that adults are also interested in (such as the basics of French and Spanish) and guests that have no real educational or interest value to anyone under 30, such as popular musicians from the '80s appearing in the late '90s and later. Averted with Katy Perry: her segment with Elmo was cut because of her cleavage.

Parodied by perverted theatre director Don Dimello in the Comedy Bang Bang podcasts and TV Show, who is so obsessed with providing "something for daddy" that he directs adaptations of fairy tales as at best risque burlesque and at worse hardcore porn.

As Jerry might say of his wife Theresa - Mamma mia! There was even one episode where she had serious cleavage showing, and they blurred it out. In the movie he is blatantly checking out her ass and even comments on it.

The Parent Service gets really blatant at the end of "New Employee" - just check out Theresa's dance routine, and her 'Flashdance'-inspired last line: "And pull the cord!"

A recent episode features Theresa dressed as a schoolgirl, really proud of the fact that she was the most popular girl at school, which is explained by Jerry who says that she was the first girl admitted in a boys highschool.

The Librarians includes former Victoria's Secret model Rebecca Romijn, although Lindy Booth does most of the fanservice with her short dresses, most notably in "And the Apple of the Discord", where she ends up in her underwear after she gets hold of a magic item... which none of the cast do. The male cast aren't bad looking either.

Conversed and frequently referenced in Dara O'Briain's Craic Dealer. He refers to it as SOMETHIN FER DA DADS!

Music

Studio100K3 is considered an example hereof in The Netherlands and Belgium. Three women jumping up and down in cute dresses while singing songs marketed towards children, though the parents, especially the fathers tend to be a bit of a bonus audience. there is quite a lot of parental bonus in the texts as well.

S Club 7 was a kid's band, but had a very attractive group of members.◊ Compounding this is the fact that their TV show (on CBBC, remember) was set in Miami, Los Angeles, and Barcelona, meaning the group was frequently in swimsuits and other warm-weather clothing.

Pro Wrestling

The very sport of professional wrestling is this to some but for those who needed a little more, wrestling porn star Val Venis would rub his back with a towel.

Angel Rose would pull off her shirt for a Cheap Pop in U Know Pro, even though the gear she wore underneath it covered just as much.

On the Boers and Bernstein show (a sports radio show in Chicago), the host Dan Bernstein regularly explains that he enjoys watching Giada De Laurentiis with his daughter. His daughter likes the show because she explains cooking in a way that she can easily understand. He likes it because a decent percentage of the shots in the show are of Giada's chest.

Theater

A newspaper article once read speculated that the 1904 play Peter Pan was a source of Parent Service in that young women generally played the title role. Remember, a woman in leggings was very racy in Edwardian times. Then there's Tiger Lily, a Nubile Savage in a tight, short, leather dress.

Most Pantomimes (where the Principal Boy is always played by a woman) is a source of this, even today.

Let's go back even further, when the laws loosen up to allow women to perform, they were often put in roles that includes 'disguising oneself as a boy' for this reason.

Pokémon Live! had several dancers in the background wearing skin-tight leotards.

James delivers a joke about employment benefits and "Don't Ask Don't Tell".

About half way through the song Be Prepared in the theatrical version of The Lion King, there's a dance sequence performed by half a dozen male dancers. The parent service comes from them being topless apart from their hyena masks.

Heck, Miyamoto's wife had a say in his design for Ocarina of Time, saying their original boyish teen Link with a "distinctive button nose" wasn't attractive enough. Shigeru jokingly asked if she'd play the game if he was better looking. She seriously said yes.

The sexy blonde nurse, called literally Hello, Nurse!. Hello Nurse's appearance almost always prompts Wakko and Yakko into exclaiming "Hellooooooo, Nurse!", (one of the show's well-known lines) and jumping into her arms. She also appears in some short as hostess, maid, Femme Fatale, etc.

In the first season, when the main cast was at its youngest and most childish, the creators gave us Commander Zhao, introduced with a Shirtless Scene, and voiced by Jason Isaacs.

The villainesses in Batman: The Animated Series. Extra points go to Harley and Ivy's blatant (and canon!) Les Yay, and, in later episodes, Harley's attempts to seduce the Joker, which involved pies and nighties and were about as risqué as they were unsuccessful.

The Brak Show had an in-universe example with Brak's favorite show, Señor Science. His dad has quite a fondness for the title character's assistant, Chikita. However, given that she's never on screen, we viewers have to take Dad's word on how sexy she is.

Danny Phantom is not immune, such as with Desiree. There's also Vlad for a male example—he even gets a Shirtless Scene at one point. Also pay attention to how the Fenton parents often react to each other.

Adult AndrAIa wears a top that that shows off most her torso and a lot cleavage

And, despite the crazy, Hexadecimal had to be the original Parental Bonus.

Daemon's skimpy clothes and several "rebooted" attires for Dot Matrix (Elvira comes to mind) also qualify.

Lampshaded hilariously when Dot and Bob find themselves in a Tomb Raider like game, and Dot Reboots as a hot Egyptian chick, checks out her new form and accessories for something she doesn't find and, at Bob's enquiry, replies "Well, I was hoping for a couple of Forty-Fives."

Babs Bunny in Tiny Toon Adventures had a habit of adding a load of curves when she did some of her costume changes. The two most blatant being the Elvira costume when trying to get an acting gig from Shakesphere, and the time she (somehow) disguised herself as a human to get a role in the "live-action" series "Thirteen-something", and spent half the episode with a pair of double-D's (on a two-foot body, no less!).

In X-Men: Evolution Rogue fulfilled this role. Sure, you could make a claim for others, but Rogue was, Word of God even admitting such, always drawn and designed in the show to show off as much skin as she could without actually going overboard.

Then there's "Walk On The Wild Side" which gets all the X-girls into black leather pants and halter tops as they prepare to fight crime. Oh lord.

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